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Jessica Sarah Rinland

Jessica Sarah Rinland An Argentine-British filmmaker, she directed Sol de Campinas (Cinéma du réel 2021), Those That, At a Distance, Resemble Another (Cinéma du réel 2019) Black Pond (2018),  Adeline for Leaves (2014). She is a recipient of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Schnitzer prize for excellence in the arts in 2017. Her work has …

Maureen Fazendeiro

Maureen Fazendeiro French filmmaker and scriptwriter born in 1989 and based in Lisbon. She studied literature, art and cinema at Denis Diderot University in Paris. Her short films Motu Maeva and Black Sun were shown at international film festivals, film library and museums. In the past years she has been dividing her time between individual …

Malena Szlam

Malena Szlam She is a Chilean artist and filmmaker based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang. Through her practice, Szlam reimagines connections between humans and the natural world. Recent projects focus on geology, earth sciences, and volcanology. Szlam’s work has been exhibited widely at festivals and museums. Szlam’s 2018 film Altiplano was in competition at Cinéma du réel in …

Luo Li

Luo Li An independent filmmaker. He was born and grew up in Wuhan, China. He studied film production and obtained his MFA at York University in Toronto, Canada. Since 2005, Li has made short experimental films and feature-length documentary and fiction films. His first feature is I went to the zoo the other day (2009), …

Elouan Le Bars

Elouan Le Bars Through video, installation and artistic research, Elouan Le Bars (1998) is interested in contemporary forms of staging, play and control. His work examines the influence of virtual environments, video game culture and changes in the workplace on the way we act and talk about ourselves.He graduated from the École nationale supérieure d’arts …

Marie Tavernier

Marie Tavernier She makes documentary films, including Délaissé (2009) and À ma mesure (2018), developed during a writing workshop at the FEMIS. Screened at various festivals (Festival dei Popoli, Les rencontres du film documentaire, Films de femmes, Les états généraux du film documentaire, Interférences, Le Mois du Doc, etc.), her films explore the poetry of …

Hugo Mazzoccoli

Hugo Mazzoccoli After working for a few years developing camera systems for satellites, Hugo turned to filmmaking in 2020. Dortoirs is his first short film.

John Smith

John Smith Born in London,1952, he studied at North-East London Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, after which he became an active member of the London Filmmakers’ Co-op. Inspired in his formative years by conceptual art and structural film, he also became fascinated by the immersive power of narrative and the spoken word, forming …

Antoine Vazquez

Antoine Vazquez Born in 1990 in the Béarn region of France, Antoine Vazquez is a young filmmaker. After studying Anthropology at the EHESS in Toulouse, he joined the Lussas Documentary School, graduating in 2019. His first short film, Et des ruines que tu me laisses, was selected in numerous festivals in France and abroad. Country Queer is his …

Lory Glenn

Lory Glenn Born in Montreuil, France, Lory Glenn began his artistic studies at the Duperré school in Paris, where he studied fashion. Involved in a number of social movements during this period, it was during the demonstrations against the Global Security Act that he began to reflect on the image as a tool of protest. …

Annick Redolfi

Annick Redolfi After studying political science, Annick Redolfi trained as a filmmaker and began her career in journalism (La Marche du Siècle, Etats d’Urgence), from which she developed a keen interest in the politically-charged issues of our time. Convinced of the need to assert her point of view, she continued on the documentary path. Her …

Eva Morin

Eva Morin She has drawn and photographed her daily life over the years, and has been passionate about art since she was very young. She will be entering the HELB Ilya Prigogine in 2021. Her first short documentary is entitled Maux Étouffés.